Qin Zhong

However, as he's leaving, he's stopped because, uh, our protagonist, Jia Baoyu, the young, you know, the young man at the, the center of this family, uh, he wants to, to speak with him.

So the two of them chat for a bit and mostly they talk about, um, Qin Zhong, uh, a mutual friend of theirs who died some time earlier in the book.

And, uh, Xianglian, this young, uh, this young guy, he also mentions that he may need to, to leave the city for several years for reasons that are kind of somewhat obscure.

So the two of them having spoken, Xianglian then leaves the party where he's ambushed by Xue Pan, who is reluctant to let him go, shall we say.

Um, which gets back to some themes we've seen before-

Mm-hmm

... uh, in the representation also of Qin Zhong, uh, Baoyu's friend, who is also a friend of Xianglian and who is-

Mm-hmm